We took a week out from normal classes to take part in this employability week at the fancy new campus in North Belfast.
I was actually pretty excited for it, it'd be a chance to meet new people and get a chance to look around the new building I've heard so much about. I was hoping the whole week would be relevant to what I'm studying, but it turned out to be the opposite...
Instead of learning about things that would help us with our subjects and employability in our chosen fields, we basically did a lot of team-building with people from polar opposite courses to ours. Sure, meeting new people was all well and grand but the people I worked with in particular had little enthusiasm and I won't lie, I was finding it hard to dig deep for some enthusiasm too.
This might sound really silly, but a one-hour lunch-break seems pretty ridiculous when in my class I'm used to a good two hours plus to go for a dander around the town, or in my case, spend too much money on DVDs which in one way, it's healthy because it's a dose of inspiration, but on the other hand I'm spending too much money...
But now let's get back on topic. I'd been feeling ill most of the week, which was partly an excuse to take time off but at the same time I was feeling completely rubbish, so I wasn't completely up to taking part in team-building activities, e.g. building towers out of paper, or trying to create an advertisement scheme for a beauty parlour (what did this have to do with my course? I asked myself that question quite a lot over the course of the week)
I guess I enjoyed the last day I was in, because I got to take inspiration for advertising from a few films and celebrities that I like, namely the film 'Lolita' and Dita Von Teese. Overall, I didn't enjoy the experience. I would have so much rather have been in normal classes.
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